Canadian researchers push to make science a federal election issue

University of Ottawa Biology professor Jules Blais was recently featured in a CBC article discussing the need to protect independent scientific research in Canada. This is just one of many ways in which academics and other organizations are promoting the importance of science to Canadian discovery and innovation, and the need to continue to support both basic and applied research.

As Blais notes in the CBC article:

“Science has always been apolitical by its nature, but in recent years because of the dramatic changes that we’re seeing in the way science is being done, and science is being conducted, it’s increasingly a political issue.”

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